“Huff!”
Wu De, tied to the pillar, exhaled with difficulty, carefully avoiding the blade pressed against his neck.
Slowly raising his head, he looked toward Zhang Yuge.
“Let me go. If you enter the Five Spirit Sect, you’re guaranteed to become an Inner Disciple. Killing me won’t benefit you.I may have teased your maid and insulted you publicly, but those were just words. There’s no deep grudge between us. Me alive is definitely more advantageous to you than me dead.”
“Is that so…”
Zhang Yuge was unconvinced.
He sipped his tea and said calmly:
“Wang Quan is my sworn brother. Today, you insulted, beat, and humiliated him in front of everyone. How do you plan to settle that score?”
“Huff—”
Wu De exhaled painfully, as if gathering his courage.
After a moment of silence, he turned to Wang Quan beside him:
“Here and now, I, Wu De, offer my sincere apology to Young Master Wang. I hope Young Master can forgive my rudeness and offenses.”
“Who would have thought our lofty Elder Wu would stoop to apologize to a mere mortal,”
Zhang Yuge sneered, amused at Wu De’s sudden change of attitude.
Just then, Zhang Yuge noticed Wu De’s storage pouch left idle on the table.
He picked it up but couldn’t open it.
“System, can you open this storage pouch?”
“Host, this storage pouch has already been claimed and cannot be opened without using the Universal Key.”
“How do you use the Universal Key?”
“Consuming one thousand Fate Points allows one use of the Universal Key.”
Zhang Yuge had no choice but to give up since he only had a hundred Fate Points left.
“System, can I bind this Wu fellow and convert him into a Sword Spirit?”
“Regrettably, the current system level is lv2, allowing two bindings, both of which have been used. To bind new people, the host must increase their strength, which will raise the system’s level accordingly.”
That complicated things. Increasing strength wasn’t something done overnight, especially without experience books.
“You can’t open it. This storage pouch has been claimed—only I can take things out, unless I die, so…”
That was what Wu De was about to say next.
But before he could finish, Zhang Yuge was still chatting with the system, his attention scattered. He casually said:
“Then just cut it off.”
As soon as the words fell,
Wu De’s face changed drastically, and he shouted in panic,
“Wait!”
“…Wait!”
Zhang Yuge realized and immediately called a halt.
However, at Zhang Yuge’s command, a dozen steel blades swung toward Wu De’s neck.
The blades fell.
With a thud, a human head dropped to the ground.
“Ah?”
A servant holding a blade only then realized what had happened, looking at Zhang Yuge with a stunned expression.
“Young Master, what did you just say?”
“…Nothing.”
Zhang Yuge stared at the bloody head on the floor in disbelief.
He hadn’t even figured out why Wu De deliberately suppressed his cultivation to below Foundation Establishment.
At that moment, a system notification sounded in his mind.
“Ding, unknown energy detected within Wu De’s body, suspected to be another system. With Wu De’s death, signs of unbinding and detachment from that system have appeared.”
A gleaming golden light shot out from Wu De’s corpse.
Zhang Yuge quickly captured it—surprisingly, it was effortless.
Soon, the golden light in his palm settled into small glowing specks, like fireflies.
Is this Wu De’s system?
Could he also be a protagonist?
“Ding, parsing in progress…”
Hearing the system’s voice in his head, Zhang Yuge raised his eyebrows slightly.
Honestly, he was a bit surprised that the Sword God System could detect another system’s energy.
“Ding, parsing successful. Current system can absorb and devour. After absorption, the Alchemy System will be unlocked, allowing the host to refine various rare pills.”
The system notification sounded again.
“If it can be absorbed, then absorb it. Keeping it is pointless.”
The next moment, as the Alchemy System was absorbed into the Sword God System, Wu De’s memories flooded Zhang Yuge’s mind.
Through these memories, Zhang Yuge learned Wu De’s background.
Before transmigrating, he was a school bully who loved to torment the weak, frequently extorting and harassing others.
He beat his elderly grandmother and stole money from home to buy cigarettes, pay for online games, and tip female streamers.
He liked speeding on motorcycles and was eventually hit by a truck, causing his transmigration.
After transmigrating, he gained an Alchemy System and used it to climb from a mere mortal to an Inner Disciple of the Five Spirit Sect.
Even in this new life, Wu De continued his misdeeds—worse than before.
He’d kill mortals without blinking.
Such a worthless protagonist!
A hopeless failure.
The spirit stones the Five Spirit Sect gave him?
All stashed away in the System Warehouse.
“Ding, system warehouse successfully merged. Obtained 20,000 spirit stones, 400 bottles of pills, 50 boxes of herbs, and one Pill Furnace.”
“Ding, absorption complete. System level raised to lv5. Maximum bindings increased to 5, with 3 binding slots remaining. Host’s Fortune Points increased by 50, Fortune level is now purple, and Fate Points increased by 2,000.”
Now that Wu De was dead, the storage pouch was no longer restricted.
Zhang Yuge opened it directly and found many rare pills inside, such as Huanglong Pills, Jinsui Pills, Foundation Establishment Pills, Heqi Pills, and all sorts of valuable treasures tricked from the high officials in the capital earlier that day.
Aside from the unexpected windfall, Zhang Yuge also discovered an even more shocking truth in Wu De’s memories.
“Young Master?”
Everyone saw Zhang Yuge zoning out and couldn’t help but ask.
“Wang Quan.”
Snapping back to reality, Zhang Yuge looked directly at Wang Quan.
“Brother Zhang, what’s wrong?”
“I just want to say, it’s a good thing you weren’t noticed by that Wu fellow… Today’s recruitment event at Jinyi Tower, under the Five Spirit Sect’s name, is a complete trap.”
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